20 Amazing Facts About Water

10. Water intoxication can occur from drinking too much water, and essentially means that the sodium in the bloodstream has been diluted.

This can lead to an imbalance of water in the brain. However, water intoxication doesn’t happen all the time, and it most likely to happen during intense athletic exercise.

11. You might get flak for being lazy if you have a dishwasher, but the next time someone gives you jib about it tell them you’re a water saver.

In fact washing dishes by hand uses almost 7 times the amount of water that a modern dishwasher uses to accomplish the same task!

12. Water is a pretty amazing substance, more so than any other element available to us.

Even more interesting is that it’s the only mineral that can be found naturally on the surface of the earth in all three of its forms: solid, liquid and gas.

13. The earth is like a terrarium, a closed system that rarely gains or loses extra matter.

This means that the same water that was on the earth millions of years ago is still present today, in very similar quantities. How much water is that really? About 1,358,827,275 cubic kilometres of water. That’s more than 1.3 billion cubic kilometres!

14. Human being rely on their bodies to tell them when they need to drink water, but maybe they shouldn’t.

For example, did you know that by the time you feel thirsty, you’ve already lost over 1% of your body’s total water amount?

15. Drinking water is key to staying healthy and even losing weight.

However, any weight that you’ve lost directly after physical activity is water weight, not fat weight. There goes your post-workout weigh-in!

16. Water also has a lot to do with food.

It’s present in every single type of food we eat in some form, and it takes around 25,740 litres of water to grow just one day’s worth of food for the average family of four.

17. Household leaks are massive wasters of water in developed countries all over the world.

In fact, in the United States it is estimated that these leaks are wasting more than 3 trillion litres every single year. That’s the same amount of water that is used throughout the year by 11 million American homes.

18. Producing food almost always comes with a very high water cost that is related both to the growing of the food, the production of it, and the transportation of that food to sale.

So on average a slice of bread takes 41 litres of water to make, an apple will use almost 70 litres, 500g of beef takes around 6,8000 litres of water to produce, and 500g of chocolate uses almost 12,000 litres!

19. There is more fresh water present in the atmosphere right now that in all of the planet’s rivers put together.

However, if all of that water vapour were to fall to earth at once it would only cover the planet in about an inch of water.

20. Water is the most common substance found on the earth, and after reading all of these facts, this should surprise nobody!

Who knew all of the things water can do to better our lives?